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[Folder of eighteenth-century ornamental designs : from various books of ornament] (Folder 2)

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A589

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Type of record: Book

Title: [Folder of eighteenth-century ornamental designs : from various books of ornament] (Folder 2)

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A589

Creator(s): Vivares, François and others (1709-1780)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: F Vivares et al

Publication city: London, Paris

Date(s): c.1754-c.1780?

Language: English

Size and medium: 25 plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729058

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019859927605181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Bedford Collection copy A589 contains loose plates from: 1. Edwards and Darly, A new book of Chinese designs (1754), plates 5, 12[?],21, 26, 54, 82, 119 [folder 2]. / 2. Jean Pillement, Recueil des fontaines, chinoises (1770), 4 plates? / 3. Peyrotte, [Chinoiserie designs], printed & sold by F. Vivares at the Golden Head in Newport Street, near Leicesterfields, title page and plates, 2, 3, 4,5, 6. / 4. Robert Sayer, A new book of French ornaments, title page. / 5. A drawing book of ornaments by M Lock (D Voisin), title page. / 6. Hemerick after Nilson, Arts & traffick flourish best in time of peace, A new book of shields [before 1780], printed & sold by F. Vivares, title page. / 7. Architecture, plate XLIV (A Bell, engraver). / 8. J. Goeree, single plate. / 9. Setlezky, Feichtmeir, Vind, single plate of ornamental shield, plate 4. / 10. de la Joue and Huquier, 2 plates of ornamental shields, 5, 6.

Several plates in common with Bedford collection A148, An album of eighteenth-century ornamental designs.

Features

Bindings

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A589: black folder [spine title, ornament loose plates] with archival paper folder 2.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A589: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: ORo/66-79.

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